I often feel this way, but it is because mine HAS worsened. I began with acute gastritis. Despite taking the meds and living clean, I only got a short reprieve. A couple of years later, the gastritis was back. However, another EGD showed that it was everywhere - meaning that it had never really gone away, just gone "silent." I went back on meds and started doing stuff like P90X and other extreme workout programs in the hope that it would make me strong and healthy. Unfortunately, my last EGD (about a year ago) showed gastritis WITH several small polyps, esophagitis with a "Z Line" and I still have GERD and gastritis symptoms one a daily despite more meds, changing diet, etc.

So, yes. I worry about what might eventually happen with my esophagus (and my stomach as well).

I also have gerd symptoms even though I take 20 to 40 mg of omeprazole daily. Whenever | eat too much or too quickly or have food that has a lot of fat in it I get what feels like a strep throat. When I do I try as much as possible not to clear my throat or cough because that irritates the throat making it raw and letting the acid reflux irritate my throat that much more. I have limited knowledge about your condition but maybe this advice about not clearing your throat or coughing may help. Keep seeking advice and you might find something that works for you

What I know is that for sure you dont want to get esophageal cancer regardless of the chances of getting it. Around 17 000 people per year get it. I have been helping on this site for about 5 years and there have been a few that started out on the GERD site that ended up on the esophageal cancer site. I have a sliding hiatal hernia and am more prone to reflux and heartburn. It takes a lot of work to get to a good place and not have constant symptoms but this can be done. The other main cause in my opinion is anxiety and mental health issues. The veterans on this issue are not on this new site much any more but we all have come to a similar conclusion over the years. Mental health plays a huge role in this problem. Get help from the mental health point of view if it applies to you. Most people have to prop up at night as well and stop eating about 7 hours before bed and that last meal needs to be very plain and your smallest meal. Even on a ppi you still have to stick to all the rules in order to heal this issue. It takes time and discipline to get good at this problem. So with this problem the diet has to stay bland and boring for at least a year and that means not treating yourself to anything. it takes a ton of discipline to get to a good place as well but it can be done. It took me about 2 years to become an expert at managing the diet part and discovering all the rules you have to stick to, to heal the esophagus. Gastritis is more complex and the rules are a bit different. Gastritis takes longer to heal and you really have to pay attention to what bothers you but anxiety can really cause this issue to get way worse. You have to be prepared that you can lose a lot of weight healing this but it does get way better. There are a lot of success stories on this site. I can eat a lot of foods and have for about 3 years now and not have an issue. But if you have gastritis and reflux. Deal with the healing gastritis first. What someone can eat with gastritis is different than what you can eat with reflux. People with reflux and heartburn only, all tend to have to avoid all the same things but gastritis diet can be much different for each person. What bothers one person doesnt bother someone else etc.It is more of a challenge but I have had it too and rarely have it now. Doing a food journal is also very important. It helps you zone in on the things that can bother you. A lot of healthy foods can give you reflux/gastritis as well. So the food journal is key to healing this.. Certain textures of food can be an issue as well. An inflamed esophagus gets worse as something with too much texture passes by it. Another rule is to not drink too much fluids with food. Too much brings everything up closer to the esophagus and slows down digestion a lot. Exercise after you eat to speed up digestion for example.

This can be a trial and error process and a 3 steps forward and 2 steps back type of thing. Determination and discipline are the key to this.

Depends on the person. Some people overreact and thus exaggerate. Others just reach a breaking point(sometimes), become depressed, and(also) become one, or more, of these things:frustrated, aggravated,upset,annoyed, and have either regular anger or rage.
I'm from the southern U.S.. This means that, at the majority of restaurants,I can't eat off of the main menu. I can only eat off of the dessert and/or kid's menu(which I find embarrassing and humiliating). Some restaurants I can't even eat off of these menus. At the really rich restaurants, which I eat at once a yr. and most times not even that, the majority of the time they will let you customize something you order. There are some that won't even do this though. I can't eat at seafood restaurants for example. The only time I can have seafood is in a frozen dinner or at Chinese restaurants. When I go out I have a tendency to stick to chain restaurants that are not southern based because I have more eating options.
At the stores, that are near me, a lot of the time it's hard to find frozen dinners that I can eat. There will be occasions where none of the frozen dinners are ones I can have. In order to have a large,and good selection, to choose from I would have to travel30-40min.s away!
I can't drink Gatorade, Powerade,the majority of juices,pop and certain flavored waters. The only juices I can have are the really expensive straight up juices. So I stick to milk and water.
I can't eat pre-seasoned meat from the store and I can't eat smoked meat either.
When I order a pizza I have to order one of the two sauces that isn't a tomato base sauce in order to eat any left over slices that I might want to eat the next day. If I order it with a tomato based sauce I have to double up on my stomach medication. There are times where I not only have to double up on my stomach medication BUT I also,depending on how well(or not well)my stomach has been doing,have to chug anywhere between half a bottle of pepto bismol all the way to a bottle and then some.
There have been times where I'll,unknowingly, eat something that's slightly spicy but it's subtle so it doesn't register till it's in my stomach or I'll eat something(like a snack food) not realizing, because I forgot to read the ingredients before buying, that one of the many ingredients in there is a spicy ingredient(sometimes they'll have more than one) and I'll end up paying a price. The price I pay sometimes depends on the serving size and sometimes not. One of the(many)ways I pay is that I'll have to sleep(although I don't get much because of pain and sometimes I have trouble breathing too) on the chair(it doesn't recline). Sometimes I'll have to sleep more than one night on the chair.